Trump Promotes Guy Who Was Too Racist for GOP Senators
Tim Miller gives his take on Donald Trump promoting Paul Ingrassia, the racist Twitter troll whose private texts about having a "Nazi streak" were so vile that even MAGA group chats were telling him to dial it back. The Senate refused to confirm him for a previous job and now he's going to be deputy general counsel at the General Services Administration.
Watch Tim's video on Ingrassia's texts: https://youtu.be/MInUIlH7sfU
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Megyn Kelly is a Deeply Broken Person
Tim Miller takes on Megyn Kelly and Batya Ungar-Sargon’s appalling attempt to spin Jefferey Epstein’s 15 and 16-year-old victims as nearly-adults, as they try to manipulate the well-documented accusations in effort to rewrite the story to protect Trump.
Watch Tim’s conversation with Stacey Williams
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Fox News Practically BEGS Trump To Admit Prices Are Up
Donald Trump has a new message for Americans worried about the economy: you’re wrong. Andrew Egger and Will Saletan share their take on Trump's message, breaking down his bizarre insistence that prices are “way down,” that gas is $2, that groceries are cheaper, and that any reporting to the contrary is just a “manufactured” media conspiracy.
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MAGA Media Turns on Kash Patel—And His Girlfriend
Sam Stein and Will Sommer take on Kash Patel’s government jet scandal, the MAGA pile-on targeting his girlfriend, the absurd “Mossad honeypot” conspiracy, and the escalating lawsuits shaking up the right.
Read more in Will Sommer's latest False Flag newsletter: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel-girlfriend-alexis-wilkins-driving-maga-nuts
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Trump Panics as House Takes Step to Release Epstein Files
The House just hit 218 votes to force a floor vote on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files — a rare bipartisan revolt that Donald Trump tried, and failed, to stop. Sam Stein and Andrew Egger share their take on what's next before the files could be released, why MAGA world is panicking, and what the newly released Epstein emails reveal about Trump’s own connections to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.
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